CBSE Class 8 English On the Grasshopper and Cricket MCQs

Question. Whom did the poet identify as summer days?
(a) Grasshopper
(b) Cricket
(c) Birds
(d) Ants

Answer:  A

Question. Where do the birds take shelter?
(a) Cooling trees
(b) Beneath the weed
(c) Behind the stone
(d) Grassy hills

Answer:  A

Question. Who sings the poetry of earth in the summer season?
(a) Grasshopper
(b) Cricket
(c) Crow
(d) Skylark

Answer:  A

Question. Why all the birds were fainted?
(a) Hot sun
(b) Heavy rain
(c) Cold breeze
(d) All of them

Answer:  A

Question. What makes the birds faint?
(a) Earth’s poetry
(b) Hot sun
(c) Frost
(d) Rain

Answer:  B

Question. ‘The poetry of earth is — dead’
(a) Almost
(b) Always
(c) Never
(d) No

Answer:  C

Question. Whose voice can be heard in summer?
(a) Ant
(b) Grasshopper
(c) Cricket
(d) All of them

Answer:  B

Question. What does the cricket’s song increase?
(a) Cold
(b) Dryness
(c) Warmth
(d) None of these

Answer:  C

Question. How far was Lyonnesse when the poet set out for?
(a) two hundred miles
(b) Hundred miles
(c) Fifty miles
(d) None of these

Answer:  B

Question. Name the poet of the poem “On the Grasshopper and Cricket”
(a) P. B Shelly
(b) William Shakespeare
(c) John Dryden
(d) John Keats

Answer:  D

Question. Where does the grasshopper take rest?
(a) Beneath the weed
(b) Behind the stone
(c) Grassy hills
(d) None of the above

Answer:  A

Question. Who is the poet of the poem “When I set out for Lyonnesse”?
(a) T.S. Eliot
(b) Thomas Hardy
(c) Rabindranath Tagore
(d) Firdaus Kanga

Answer:  B

Question. Complete the line in Stanza 1 that says, “The poetry of earth is __”
(a). Never dead
(b). Ceasing never
(c). Dead never
(d). Never ceasing

Answer:  A

Question. “The —-‘s song, in warmth increasing ever,”
(a) Grasshopper
(b) Poet
(c) Cricket
(d) Ant

Answer:  C

Question. Whose warmth is ever increasing?
(a) Grasshopper’s song
(b) Cricket’s song
(c) Birds chirping
(d) Poetry of earth

Answer:  B

Question. Who could have not guessed what happened in Lyonnesse?
(a) The poet
(b) Prophet
(c) Wisest wizard
(d) Both (b) and (c)

Answer:  D

Question. “The rime was on the spray” What do you mean by the word “rime”?
(a) Rhyme
(b) Frost
(c) Leaves
(d) Trees

Answer:  B

Question. Who could not dare to declare the poet in Lyonnesse?
(a) Prophet
(b) The poet, himself
(c) Wisest wizard
(d) None of these

Answer:  A

Question. Whose voice can be heard in winter?
(a) Birds
(b) Ants
(c) Grasshopper
(d) Cricket

Answer:  D

Question. Who sings the poetry of earth in the winter season?
(a) Grasshopper
(b) Cricket
(c) Crow
(d) Skylark

Answer:  B

Question. Whom did the poet identify as winter evening?
(a) Cricket
(b) Ant
(c) Grasshopper
(d) All of them

Answer:  A

Question. What is the meaning of ‘Lonesomeness’?
(a) Lonely
(b) Isolated
(c) Loneliness
(d) None of these

Answer:  C

The poetry of earth is never dead:
When all the birds are faint with the hot sun.
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead,
This is the grasshopper’ she takes the lead
In summer luxury—he has never done
With his delights, for when tired out with fun
He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.

Question. Who symbolises the poetry of earth?
(a) Grasshopper and cricket
(b) Cricket
(c) Grasshopper
(d) Ant

Answer:  A

Question. Which voice runs from hedge to hedge?
(a) Ant’s
(b) Grasshopper’s
(c) Cricket’s
(d) Parrot’s

Answer:  C

Question. How do the birds feel during extreme summer?
(a) Faint
(b) Pleasant
(c) Gay
(d) None of these

Answer:  A

Question. Name the poem.
(a) The Ant and the Cricket
(b) The Grasshopper and the Cricket
(c) Geography Lesson
(d) The last bargain

Answer:  B